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It looks fancy enough and you can show your friends how retro you are. Sure a CD player would be better in every way, but everyone has those. Sound is really
by slededit 8y ago
It looks fancy enough and you can show your friends how retro you are. Sure a CD player would be better in every way, but everyone has those. Sound is really secondary here.
- WalterGR 8y agoyou can show your friends how retro you are. My hobbies and the things I spend my discretionary money on are superior to other people’s hobbies and the things they spend their discretionary money on.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoWhy not just get an actual 70s/80s vintage tape deck instead?
- DanBC 8y agoBecause they're i) mechanical and often need to be repaired and ii) shit. Seriously, tape is fucking awful for all use cases except "no other formats exist at this point in time", and that was true in 1982, but not today.
- yellowapple 8y agoI use the tape deck in my car more than the CD player, and almost as much as I use the radio. Granted, that's mostly because I have one of those tape-to-3.5mm adapters, but even the actual tapes I pop in every once in awhile are more convenient than CDs, not to mention more space-efficient.
- nightfly 8y agoTapes were pretty durable. Degraded tapes at least played, unlike scratched CDs which could be be effectively ruined pretty easily. Plus portable tape players could be jostled around during playback with effecting anything, while cheap portable CD players would cut out.
- voltagex_ 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA - "better than you don't remember". This is an interesting watch if you've got the time.
- xiii1408 8y agoPeople still have CD players?
- guscost 8y agoI just picked up an SCPH-1001 (original PS1) on eBay for 25 bucks. With the multi A/V out into a tube stereo, CDs sound fantastic. Not very convenient but a nice option.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoThe PlayStation really isn't a very good CD player. Its controls are clunky, and it has uneven frequency response and high distortion. But I guess it's less relevant, since you're feeding it to a tube amp anyway ;-)
- guscost 8y agoWell it's piped through a mixer first, and cmon, it was 25 bucks :)
- slededit 8y agoYea it hasn't been long enough for them to be thrown out yet. Most cars still have them too.